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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #32 - Twilight

We had a total blast guessing the movie last night with you! And seriously - you guys are amazing with your guessing ability. This week we are so excited to feature the movie: Twilight!!! This movie is based on the insanely popular book saga by Stephanie Meyers and since its release the book/movie has totally created a phenomenon in the popular culture. Stephanie Meyer's has totally created a whole new pop culture with her series, similar to the fan culture that JK Rowling created with the Harry Potter series (and interestingly enough, Robert Pattinson who plays Edward Cullen in Twilight, played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter IV. (I feel like we should dedicate this movie to one of our challenge participants: Erica - who has been guessing this movie for the past few cinema challenges! Erica - this one is for you!)

The requirement this week is a fun one:to use the colors Red and Black in your card with Sparkles!!

You are not limited to these two colors -and have fun with adding some sparkle to your card!So have fun and enjoy!

Sankari's Card Inspired by the movie: Twilight

I had so much fun making a card this week! I know that we can use other colors other than black and red - but I went with these two colors and added some sparkley bling. I loved the cover of the book with the apple - and the symbols that the apple conjures up is an interesting one. According to WikiAnswers: in the movie Twilight: the apple stands for the forbidden fruit - Bella is the fruit and her blood is forbidden to Edward. The whole notion of love transcending different forbidden interactions (vampire/human, etc.) was something that is just immemorial. They are both the apple of each other's eye - and so even though their love is forbidden - the purity of the love transcends any social convention and allows the walls that have been built up in their hearts to crumble.

According to the author of the book Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, the apple for her represents the following: "The apple on the cover of Twilight represents "forbidden fruit." I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil." Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture. To me it says: choice." -Stephenie Meyer

It was so much fun to make this card and watch the movie at the same time - and at the same time - reading all of your guesses!! I feel so lucky to be part of this blog challenge and have this chance to get to know you!!! Thank you all!!!

Thank you to all who played along last week with the Steel Magnolias movie tribute to Mother's Day. We seriously LOVED all of your beautiful creations!! Here is a collage of all of the beautiful entries from last week:

You all did such a beautiful creations and the most beautiful part was reading the beautiful things that you wrote about mother's day, love, etc. Thank you so much for sharing pieces of your heart with all of us! And seriously - how can we choose any one card? It is so hard! We loved all your cards and created a little collage to Thank YOU for playing along with us - we really appreciate all the time and effort in your creations and also for playing along with us each week (a special hello to all our newcomers!). We couldn't pick one - so we picked two :)

We loved the concept behind Jaimee's beautiful gift set of cards that showed the passage of time in the movie Steel Magnolias and we loved the beautiful card set that Nellie created of blush & bashful cards. Thank you Ladies! We hope you will be our guest designers for next week's challenge! We also realized that we didn't post the Audrey Recipient from To Catch a Thief's Challenge - for which Chat Noir's beautiful cat card caught our attention - love the little bling in the card too!!!!

Thank you so much to all of you!! You all seriously make doing this blog so much fun for us!!!

So are you ready to play along with our TWILIGHT challenge!!!!!!?!!!

We sure hope you join us this week! All you have to do is to make a card or layout oraltered project that is inspired by the movie: Twilight. This week's requirement is to use the colors black, red and some sparkles. The inspiration for your creations can be from the music, the characters, the dialogue, the costumes, etc.

All you have to do is to link your creation to our blog by commenting on this post with a link to your direct post with your creation. You can add the direct link of your blog post to Mr. Linky - not your whole blog - because it makes finding your card int he future much easier. Kristina Werner has created a wonderful video showing how to do this.

Libby- I am so happy you finished it! The whole series is great! New Moon is a hard read, but totally worth it. Hey, maybe in a year New Moon could be the challenge. Have they ever had a sequal as a challenge.

Oh I am sooo excited!! 1. A guest designer? are you kidding me?? That is awesome, I am so excited. 2. TWILIGHT!! This is the best week ever! 3. Also, FYI a while back I found a really cool sight called 'twilight tuesday' They have a weekly Twilight inspired card challenge! Haha, I thought I would share the link in case anyone has trouble coming up with an idea, they could look at some other cards on the site....and I noticed that they are currently having a design team call...http://twilighttuesday.com/

Well now I know how I'll be spending my week... catching up on this movie, and doing lots of reading. Have to admit to never having seen anything Twilight related. Ever. SO if I get a card made, it will after a week of square eyes!!

Thanks so much for the Audrey for my black cat card. I'm so glad you liked it.

this looks like fun fun fun!! Diana Gibbs (My Sister) shared this link with me. I hope to participate in some challenges. Those sneak peeks are hard! I've seen the Twilight movie well..lets just say I own it and I like to stamp by it...so I've seen it a few times....but I'm not certain I would have been able to figure out those sneak peeks!!thanks for having such a creative blog!

Hi Julia!! So glad that you had just finished it on vacation! Hope you had fun! So glad that you played along!!

And Welcome Jacqui!!! I ADORE Diana and am so glad that you found our little challenge! YAY!

Can I say, that I am still so excited that we are doing Twilight! I SO want to make another card - but am running out of time before we leave in two days for vacay - but in my head I have like 5 more cards that are begging to be made :) See you guys soon!

I've finally got my card up! I do have other ideas but I'm not sure how to work black, red and sparkles into them so I am not going to rush them for this week. Will check out everyone else's in the morning, I'm rather tired tonight. Nice to see so many participants this week :)

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Cinema Inspiration:

Sometimes, people have written to us that they find it hard to make a card for the movie challenges - but just know that your card can be whatever it is that inspires you from the movie (and if you haven't seen the movie - you can usually see snippets on Youtube) - sometimes you can look at the themes in the movie to help you make a card, or if there is a favorite dress that a character wore that inspires you - you can create a card based on that - or perhaps its a particular color, item, scene, theme that inspires you - whatever it is - just have fun! Inspiration can come from so many different places - and we can't wait to see what inspires YOU!!! We love looking at all your beautiful creations and are always excited to "see you" at Cinema Saturday!!! So grab your fave drink, check out some links to the movie that we are featuring, check out all the pics and videos online and then join us by playing along!!!! Can't wait to see your lovely cinematic creations!!!!